Desk

Hendrik van Soest (zugeschrieben)

Antwerp, ca 1705

Oak, walnut, rosewood, tortoiseshell, brass, tin

132,5 x 102,5 x 70,0 cm

Inv.-Nr. R 3362

Transferred from the Royal Collections in 1858

Gallery 34

This desk boasts marquetry scenes modelled on the illustrations of the accounts of travels in China written by Joan Nieuhof (1665) and Olfert Dapper (1670). This type of desk with a writing surface that could be pushed in and concealed was widespread in Antwerp in 1700; it was a speciality of the workshop owned by Hendrik van Soest.